the thread is reopened and the ball returned.
FUCK I FORGOT TO MAKE A JOKE ABOUT NOT MAKING THE SEQUEL TO COHOST-META A REAL THING DAMMIT PRETEND I DID THAT AND CHUCKLE WRYLY
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i will be sure to keep in mind that making multiple long winded posts to call people stupid are fine, but just calling someone stupid is not 
hmm. i suppose iāll keep this up as well and use you as an example. i did say to DM me sooooo
i donāt really have many rules on this website. in fact, iād say I have one:
Be Normal
your post was not normal. arguing is normal. justifying an argument is normal. being short and insulting with zero justification is not. yes, there was some needless spice in the back and forth, iām not exactly known to mince words when iām irritated either. but every other comment - including your previous ones! - had more substance than a single sentence. so i deleted it. i donāt know why that would upset you tbh, i would want my past embarrassments to get removed from the internet myself too, which is exactly what that post was.
i like you bud! i like everyone here and i donāt like seeing yāall fight. but do not take advantage of my fondness with needless sarcasm about my decision. just because i donāt want to moderate yāall doesnāt mean i wonāt. i have been around long enough to know when to cut the toxicity out of a space before it spreads further.
if you can suck it up and keep it pushing i will be more than happy to pretend like this never happened. no oneās said a slur here, it does not need to be some fracture in the website. but otherwise iāll just suspend you for a while and go from there. donāt fucking test me my friend.
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late night news: i am finally on my long-term home over there, so i can actually start pointing people places if theyāre interested in this.
tl;dr: if you would like to be a part of what is basically a pre-alpha/alpha/troubleshooting phase before launch, DM me and iāll shoot you an invite to the node iām on. (beyond me having the global influence iāve mentioned, the node iām on is prioritizing users of color and iām an admin. should hopefully make for a good space?)
less tl;dr
i canāt imagine there are more than 60-80 users across the whole network as of now, but things are still pretty lively1 if you donāt mind following basically everyone right now and whittling down later on in the life of the project. in terms of UI/UX: plenty that we want to improve eventually, but. despite being microblogging oriented, Akkoma (which is what my long-term node uses) is decently Cohost-like without much modification/with certain settings enabled. meanwhile for GotoSocial (the other major federated software that nodes are using for this project) weāve got a Cohost-like frontend, Pillbug, thatās in active development and makes for a pretty good simulacra:
1 if rough around the edges and still pretty strongly bent toward microbloggingāone of the things weāre working on and troubleshooting
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Looking good!
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And now itās time for me to admit that thereās one part of my using cohost that Iāll actually missāmy private vent account that just two mutuals from main followed. No lie, it was vital to my coming to terms with some struggles from last year. Just a spot for me to get stuff off my chest to folks who might better understand things than my family, without the shame of feeling like Iām pushing someone too hard by directly reaching out to them privately. Got some reassuring comments on this page plenty a time, too.
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Iām writing my first blogpost past the shuttering of cohost and likeā¦I do miss knowing someoneās gonna read it haha. Even if it is just via a scattering of likes.
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That has been the more difficult part of adjusting to dreamwidth for me. Thankfully I have found a small cadre of commenters so thereās never Zero feedback but like. See my post upthread about missing a digital commons. Likes are nice
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this tookā¦ significantly longer than expected but, after a lot of wrangling: hereās a big update on Website League progress and how to joināwhile we already have a bunch of users, this is de facto the alpha launch weāve been intending to do for awhile.
also of particular interest to @dismallyOriented will probably the best practices for moderation document that summarizes contemporary moderation research, which i just finished last night and which has been put on the Website League wiki as guidance for prospective mods and admins:
(offer of invite to the node i am an admin on still stands, btwāa few of you are already over there)
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Oh, tyvm for the @, thatās very thoughtful of you. I think I might like to join that node but not right this minute. Iāll poke you again next week probably
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goodnight sweet prince
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Aaaand gone, I know because my signature exploded